Sabbath
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sæbəθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sabbath is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
281 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sabbath counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
281 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sabbath is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, day of worship & rest
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Benjamin Sabbathb. 1862CZHolocaust victim (born 1862)
- Klara Sabbathb. 1863CZHolocaust victim (born 1863)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 297 | #70,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 281 | #69,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 278 | #66,476 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sabbath mean, and where does it come from?
- Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Sabbath?
- In the etymology graph, Shabbat is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sabbath?
- A machine transcription gives /sæbəθ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sabbath have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 281 people named Sabbath, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabbath.
- Where is Sabbath most common?
- Sabbath is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sabbath?
- In the United States, the national register counted 281 people named Sabbath in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sabbath?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sabbathThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sabbath”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.